Greenburg, Dan

Fourteen-year-old Cody trades one dangerous situation for another when he runs away from his abusive mother and takes a job caring for lions and tigers on a Texas ranch where one of the owners has supposedly gone missing.

Ten-year-old orphan Wally Shluffmuffin engineers a SWAT team-style operation to rescue his twin sister, Cheyenne, from the Mandible sisters; meanwhile, their vampire father's attempts to feed put him in some awkward situations.

Late one night when ten-year-old Zack hears strains of "Heartbreak Hotel" coming from the refrigerator, he discovers the possibility that Elvis lives on as a turnip.

While trying to convince the FBI that giant ants are kidnapping and enslaving the citizens of Cincinnatti, twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin, with the help of their vampire father, escape the clutches of the enormous ghouls who want to adopt--and eat--them.

Having been reunited with their zombie father only to have him turn into a vampire after drinking an experimental elixir of life, the ten-year-old Shluffmuffin twins continue to try to elude the giant ants who want to enslave all humans.

Although a paid assassin is stalking Wally while his twin sister Cheyenne is under the power of the queen ont, it is up to them, their vampire Dad, and their friends to save the human race from the giant onts.

When the babies who are being fed on human snot mutate into half-human brats, Hedy Mandible uses her hypnotic control over Cheyenne to force her to teach them proper behavior, while the Jackal initiates another elaborate scheme to assassinate Wally.

Twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin face giant ants, ghouls, zombies, and a treacherous orphanage matron when they leave their miserable home at Cincinnati's Jolly Days Orphanage to live with the Mandible sisters in the Dripping Fang Forest.

A generous North Pole teenager named Santa Claus discovers his calling in life when he borrows his father's sleigh to deliver presents to good children on Christmas Eve.